• Optional@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 month ago

    You think if the most unbelievable thing happened and a Democrat won every election to somehow hold both a majority in the House and 60 votes in the Senate, they wouldn’t toss him out?

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      1 month ago

      Conviction in an impeachment trial needs 67 votes. They currently hold 45 seats. In order to get to 67, they’d need a clean sweep of all Senate races.

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        1 month ago

        Even then, what’s the over under on a convent count of turncoats that vote against because we “just need to come together and heal the nation.”

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          1 month ago

          Tbf at this point it’s well earned. The Republicans are still not switching positions about Epstein, the 25th and other things and their voters sure as hell did, so one can only conclude the more cynical position, that is, there is so much corruption it takes more than an elite sex abuse ring for the Republicans to finally do something.